Two House Republican lawmakers are in political trouble with Election Day just four days away, according to a new analysis. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report issued a ratings update late Friday morning projecting races for Reps. Don Bacon, R-Neb., and Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., to “lean Democrat.” They were both previously classified as “toss-up” races, meaning it was anyone’s game ahead of Nov. 5. Democrats and Republicans are battling...

Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin holds a 5% edge over former Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan’s 2024 U.S. Senate contest, a poll indicates, according to the Detroit Free Press. The outlet, which reported that Slotkin leads Rogers 47%-42%, noted that the poll performed by EPIC-MRA has a plus or minus four percentage point margin of error, and that EPIC-MRA had contacted “600 randomly selected voters from” around Michigan for...

Oregon voters will have the opportunity on Tuesday to vote on a first-in-the-nation ballot measure that would levy an additional tax on large corporations to be returned to the people as a basic-income “rebate.” The measure would increase the corporate minimum or corporate income tax by 3% on sales above $25 million, which in turn would provide the Beaver State’s 4 million people with an estimated $750 each,...